Monday, January 18, 2010

World Misled Over Himalayan Glacier Meltdown

The west Himalayan range includes 15,000 glaciers. (Simon Fraser/Science Photo Library)

From Times Online:

A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

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